This is Logan’s first collection of ‘industrial fiction’, consisting of eight stories that take place in a world of electrical monsters, steel webs and sad televisions.  It’s a bold movement into a ‘new’ genre, and I can tell that his heart’s really in the right place, but it just doesn’t come off.

The pacing within the stories feels awkward and I couldn’t help but think that he’d have been better off combining all eight stories in some fashion into one longer, more focussed piece.   Still, it’s an interesting enough collection of dead-eye, steel-wool characters and some of the industrial concepts are pretty cool.

On  a side note, the editor of this thing should get sacked immediately.  I’ve never seen so many grammar mistakes and typos in a published book before.

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